We view director tenure as an indicator of a firm's stability. Longer board indicates that shareholders are satisfied with their appointments, the has relevant mix capital, it is effective at monitoring and advising management, firm unlikely to face operational strategic problems require drastic changes its board. Using broad sample up 3800 firms over 20-year period, we show longer have higher ...

Catherine Coker, Wyoma vanDuinkerken, and Stephen Bales are Assistant Professors at Texas A & M University Libraries; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. edu. © Catherine Coker, Wyoma vanDuinkerken, and Stephen Bales Tenure status for library faculty in the academic environment is coming under increasing attack from administration, faculty members in ot...

One of the obstacles to democratic development is the reluctance of political leaders to leave office. This paper argues that alongside democratic constraints and accountability, leaders’ career concerns — specifically, the possibility of post-tenure careers — is an important factor behind their rotation in office. While literature exists about leaders’ exit and fate, we lack a systematic under...

VOLUME 17, NUMBER 18 9 From the Department of Internal Medicine, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, Texas. †Deceased. *Primary authorship is as follows: In part 1, Drs. Fordtran and Merrick wrote about events prior to 1957. Dr. Kitchens wrote about Dr. Tompsett’s tenure as chief, and Dr. Armstrong wrote about Dr. Fordtran’s tenure as chief. In part 2 (to be published in an upcoming issue...

We explore empirical regularities of CIO survivability in public and private organizations using CIO job tenure durations spanning 1994 to 2009 for 1,594 executives. We employ the Kaplan-Meier estimator from event history analysis to compute survivor functions for CEOs, COOs, CFOs and CIOs. We make log rank comparisons of job tenure durations to make inferences within/across executive titles, a...

The MARORA model is used to evaluate the economics of investment in on-farm reservoirs in Arkansas under alternative land tenure arrangements. A declining groundwater supply coupled with a high percentage of rice-production area owned by absentee landowners makes investment decision-making on on-farm reservoirs an important issue for the sustainability of rice in Arkansas. The MARORA model is s...

The organization of the recruitment of tenured astronomers and astrophysicists in France is presented and compared with the setup in other countries. The ages for getting tenure have increased from 27-28 in 1980 to 31 today. Foreign scientists constitute at least 11% of the recruits and the delay in their hiring is quantified. The large reliance on national tenure committees is justified, while...